Mine by James Russell
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
"Taking in the mesmerising vision before me, I raised my arms towards the ocean like an idiot king acknowledging his subjects. My own surfing realm. Every single wave that broke on this reef was mine.”Twenty-six-year-old Jimmy Brennan’s life has taken a turn for the worse, and he’s desperate to numb the ...Show more
I Laugh Me Broken by Bridget Van der Zijpp
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: very good
Ginny is feeling lighter and heavier at the same time. She’s just learned from her cousin about a devastating genetic inheritance – but the revelation has brought a new logic to her mother’s death many years before, and to her mother’s love. Leaving her fiancé in the dark, Ginny flees to Germany to rese ...Show more
Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: very good
Kurangaituku is the story of Hatupatu told from the perspective of the traditional ‘monster’, Kurangaituku, the bird woman. In the traditional story, told from the view of Hatupatu, he is out hunting and is captured by a creature that is part bird and part woman. The bird woman imprisons him in her cav ...Show more
The Strength of Eggshells by Kirsty Powell
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
She’s six feet tall and handles a motorbike like a professional, but Kate has insecurities that match her height and she ignores her past by pushing her fingers into her ears. Why did her mother Jane only communicate through poetry? What became of her grandmother Meredith who travelled up the Whanganui ...Show more
Landfall 241 by Emma Neale (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Series: Landfall Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary. Each issue brims with a mix of vital new work by this country's best writers. There are reviews of the latest books ...Show more
Spellbound (Gabriel's Bay #3) by Catherine Robertson
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: near fine
The delightful third novel in the bestselling Gabriel's Bay series. Big trouble is brewing, secrets are coming out, threatening reputations and even lives. Outsiders are in town with questionable motives. Power and privilege are casting a seductive but ominous spell. And the Love Bus is completely munte ...Show more
Jerningham by Cristina Sanders
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
"Edward Jerningham Wakefield was the wild-child of the Wakefield family that set up the New Zealand Company to bring the first settlers to this country. His story is told through the eyes of bookkeeper Arthur Lugg, who is tasked by Colonel William Wakefield to keep tabs on his brilliant but unstable nep ...Show more
The Legend of Te Mata O Rongokako: The Sleeping Giant by Annelisa Ferguson; Sophie Blokker (Illustrator)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books
Rongokako is a giant who regularly terrorises the pā of the Heretaunga tribe, stealing their food and setting fire to the houses, until he falls in love with the chiefteness Hinerakau. The chief of the tribe asks Rongokako to bite a path through the hills to Waimarama before he'll consent to the marria ...Show more
Maui and Other Maori Legends: 8 Classic Tales of Aotearoa by Peter Gossage
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: very good
A beautiful collection of artist Peter Gossage's beloved Maori myths, in one stunning volume. Peter Gossage's memorable retellings of Maori oral myths have captivated the children of New Zealand for generations. Their dramatic and distinctive illustrations with minimal yet evocative language form a powe ...Show more